[129] But as they at last ceased to excite astonishment, were no longer welcomed by the ringing of bells, and were not received with veneration, as before, they vanished as human imaginations are wont to do. Saxon Chronicle, by Matt. Dresseren. Wittenberg, 1596, fol. p. 340, 341.
[130] Albert. Argentinens. loc. cit.
[131] Guillelm. de Nangis.
[132] Ditmar. loc. cit.
[133] Klose of Breslaw’s Documental History and Description, 8vo. Vol. II. p. 190. Breslaw, 1781.
[134] Limburg Chronicle, p. 17.
[135] Kehrberg’s Description of Königsberg, i. e. Neumark, 1724, 4to. p. 240.
[136] So says the Polish historian Dlugoss, loc. cit., while most of his contemporaries mention only the poisoning of the wells. It is evident, that in the state of their feelings, it mattered little whether they added another still more formidable accusation.
[137] In those places where no Jews resided, as in Leipsig, Magdeburg, Brieg, Frankenstein, &c., the grave-diggers were accused of the crime.—V. Möhsen’s History of the Sciences in the March of Brandenburg, T. II. p. 265.
[138] See the original proceedings, in the Appendix.